I looked up the Hanta virus, and it definitely wasn't it.
He had a large bump in his throat that swelled up fairly bad. The whole area was swollen, but the lump was about the size of a marble. He could not turn or move his neck without screaming in pain. I originally thought it might be a rattlesnake bite, but we never found any bite marks.
Ticks were ruled out, and a couple other things that I can't remember off hand. We were about to do a CT scan when he started showing improvement from steroids. Since the CT scan would cost $2000 and he was getting better, I decided not to do the scan.
He had a high fever for most of this. But he's about 700% recovered and 1000% fluffy now
Finkie, he was groomed between the pictures on the second post and the one I just put up the other day.